Brian Stone
A Stone chatting
And 90 minutes here this evening netted 304 Cory's going north. Otherwise only Yellow-legged Gulls.
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Fuerteventura & Lanzarote Pelagics, Red-billed Tropicbird, etc. (1 Viewer)
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Yes, sorry, I was sending messages from the African bush and I did not notice this typing or pick it up from the subsequent comments ... I did indeed mean "at one point", not "at obe point" - apologies for leading a trail of Google searches for a mysterious location that did not exist.
pbjosh
missing the neotropics
Just to update here as this thread has become a bit of an info repository.
I have not had much luck from land lately but took the ferry Fuerteventura to Gran Canaria and return in a morning. Generally slow, about 10 Cory’s in each direction. One Gannet, one Manx, but fortunately 2 Barolo SW on the return leg, fairly in the middle of the passage. Readily identifiable and fortunately they were traveling with the ferry so I had prolonged views but they were a good ways off and at 60k/h it is not exactly a rewarding bit of birding. C’est la vie, happy to have seen them but will be keen to see them better in the future.
I have not had much luck from land lately but took the ferry Fuerteventura to Gran Canaria and return in a morning. Generally slow, about 10 Cory’s in each direction. One Gannet, one Manx, but fortunately 2 Barolo SW on the return leg, fairly in the middle of the passage. Readily identifiable and fortunately they were traveling with the ferry so I had prolonged views but they were a good ways off and at 60k/h it is not exactly a rewarding bit of birding. C’est la vie, happy to have seen them but will be keen to see them better in the future.
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Brian Stone
A Stone chatting
I'll add another update as well. Cory's continue to stream past Punta Del Hidalgo, especially in the late afternoons it seems. Now logged well over 1000 past here with 500 past in 90 minutes on 24th Feb but sadly nothing else with them as yet. I made the longish drive south to the flesh pots of Playa de las Americas today and had a frustrating time sifting through the Ringed Plovers here searching unsuccessfully for the long-staying Semipalmated Plover. Late morning here 3-400 Cory's were gathered offshore, some rather close, and at one point a frenzy of 100 or so formed. Again couldn't locate any other species among them (but I was concentrating more on the bloody plovers!).
Phil Andrews
It's only Rock and Roller but I like it
Last time I was in Tenerife (ten years ago) I has a Barolo Shearwater from Faro Punta de Rasca.
Earnest lad
Well-known member
One very recent report from Fuerteventura I saw said "At Barranca de Rio Cabra, I counted as many as 24 Egyptian Vultures at a time". Also "The desert steppe of Tindaya where Houbara, Cream coloured coursers, black bellied sandgrouse and Eurasian Stone Curlew. Burstards are best found early in the morning. During the day they may hide next to bushes and rocks".
They roost here
opisska
rabid twitcher
Since people already report here 
I am not entirely sure as I have not gone through all the photos yet, but I think we did not find the Semipalmated Sandpiper in the on hour we had before sunset, but we may try later maybe. Ferry from Tenerife to La Palma brought a lot of Corys and one Manx, no cetaceans, nothing else of note.
I am not entirely sure as I have not gone through all the photos yet, but I think we did not find the Semipalmated Sandpiper in the on hour we had before sunset, but we may try later maybe. Ferry from Tenerife to La Palma brought a lot of Corys and one Manx, no cetaceans, nothing else of note.
